This whole ordeal was absolutely absurd and anyone who commented on that Gitlab thread, here on HN, or on other social media are the biggest bunch of entitled crybabies I've ever seen.
I've said my piece on this many times over the last few days here on HN so I won't repeat myself but if you were one of the people complaining then I want you to know in no uncertain terms that you are what's wrong with open source and you are why people don't want to maintain open source projects, you should really be ashamed of yourselves.
Seriously. It's awful to see people accusing him of jumping on the hype train and making it out as if him adding an AI feature is going to make him any more well known or wealthy. Like how about at least considering that he finds ChatGPT useful for coming up with commands and decided it made sense to integrate it into the sidebar toolbelt where he already has tools like paste history, a notepad, and directory history.
I've said my piece on this many times over the last few days here on HN so I won't repeat myself but if you were one of the people complaining then I want you to know in no uncertain terms that you are what's wrong with open source and you are why people don't want to maintain open source projects, you should really be ashamed of yourselves.